CentOS - Oct 2013 - Does elrepo fix google-chrome requirement for newer glib and GTK

Has anyone tested installing the newer kernels from elrepo (or
somewhere else) in order to keep google-chrome updated beyond version
27?  Actually, i assumed a newer kernel would come with a newer glibc
but i do not see a newer glibc via elrepo, just newer kernels.  hmmm.

# yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo* info glibc | grep -i repo
only lists my already installed glibc packages from updates.

Further, google-chrome requires gtk2 version 2.24.0 or above, and i do
not see that in any alternate repos either.  But that is another
question because
#rpm -qi gtk2-2.18.9
finds the package, but
#yum clean all
#yum --enablerepo=* search all gtk2-2.18.9
says "No Matches found"
So clearly something is messed up if yum can not find one its own
packages it itself installed, so i cannot trust it to find gtk2-2.24.


For those that do not use google-chrome-stable, each time it is newly
started, the following message appears close to the top of the window:
"Google Chrome has stopped updating and no longer supports this
version of your operating system."


Assuming 3rd party repos do not work directly, has anyone tried the following:
http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/chrome/yL3X4aEceXA/xF0gvEe7vJcJ
http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/

On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Has anyone tested installing the newer kernels from elrepo (or
> somewhere else) in order to keep google-chrome updated beyond version
> 27?  Actually, i assumed a newer kernel would come with a newer glibc
> but i do not see a newer glibc via elrepo, just newer kernels.  hmmm.
>
> # yum --disablerepo=* --enablerepo=elrepo* info glibc | grep -i repo
> only lists my already installed glibc packages from updates.
>
> Further, google-chrome requires gtk2 version 2.24.0 or above, and i do
> not see that in any alternate repos either.  But that is another
> question because
> #rpm -qi gtk2-2.18.9
> finds the package, but
> #yum clean all
> #yum --enablerepo=* search all gtk2-2.18.9
> says "No Matches found"
> So clearly something is messed up if yum can not find one its own
> packages it itself installed, so i cannot trust it to find gtk2-2.24.
>
>
> For those that do not use google-chrome-stable, each time it is newly
> started, the following message appears close to the top of the window:
> "Google Chrome has stopped updating and no longer supports this
> version of your operating system."
>
I was able to get Chrome working by doing the following (as root):

wget http://chrome.richardlloyd.org.uk/install_chrome.sh
chmod u+x install_chrome.sh
./install_chrome.sh

Chrome can then be run with the command:

google-chrome &

Note that this will only run as a regular user, not as root.